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Security researcher, ex-pentester, ex-developer, reverse engineer, amateur cryptography, electronics tinkerer, digital rights proponent, promulgator of useless facts.

Strengths: Security, Crypto, Win32 API, Windows Internals, C#, .NET, PHP, x86 assembly, Arduino

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512 Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why? Dec 18 '12
254 Why shouldn't we roll our own? Aug 6 '12
232 What technical reasons are there to have low maximum password lengths? Mar 30 '13
202 How to approach replacing md5 for transporting Unity game data to a remote server Jan 2 '17
202 Why wasn't the KRACK exploit discovered sooner? Oct 16 '17
201 Can a computer virus be stored somewhere else than on the hard drive? Apr 21 '16
161 How do you explain the necessity of “nuke it from orbit” to management and users? Nov 19 '12
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